Alfred Holzheu – online and verbose – The Main Pontifications page
Alfred Holzheu – online and verbose – The Main Pontifications page
Sunday, March 29, 2009 at 10:56 PM
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Mar 29, 2009 at 10:56 PM
For all the ignorant envirowackos out there, “Earth Hour” is a death wish. Humans can only survive and prosper by the use our hands and minds, in the subduing of nature. “Human Hour” will be a day we all turn our lights on, both physically and mentally as we reaffirm our right to exist and develop for the betterment of all mankind. Turn the lights on!
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 10:39 PM
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Mar 26, 2009 at 10:39 PM
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Mar 26, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Friedman & Donahue from Alfred Holzheu on Vimeo
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Mar 26, 2009 at 1:01 PM
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 6:55 PM
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Mar 25, 2009 at 6:55 PM
By way of definition: According to Wikipedia, AGW stands for ‘anthropogenic global warming’. This is global warming Supposedly caused directly by humans. Natural climate change is known as ‘climate variablity.
Why is this debate about beliefs, AGW is either true or not, and science not belief will be the judge in the end. What the American public believes is irrelevant, and should not sway public policy, they still believe in magic (why else would anyone buy a lottery ticket). Scale is an attribute that is routinely ignored in all these debates, ie. nothing we can do voluntarily will make one iota of difference in the outcome of AGW (if in fact it is real) in any reasonable time frame. The solution will come by some accident of human ingenuity from some completely unexpected tangent. The future has never been a linear projection of the past, it is logarithmic and chaotic. Impoverishing millions for a belief seems the heights of arrogance.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 1:10 PM
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Mar 17, 2009 at 1:10 PM
Does anyone understand that as individuals we live in a zero sum game to a certain degree. If Rich people are rich because they presumably own businesses (I am excluding inherited wealth), and you tax them, what do you expect to get? I know that I as a businessman will try and compensate by increasing prices to make up for the lost income, lay people off to make up for the lost income, or spend less on new business infrastructure (ie. job making) to make up for lost income, etc. There are no alternatives. Keeping a company healthy is the same as a farmer taking care of his crops, either I feed and nurture the business or it fails (and it might anyway, luck does not always run in your favor). And that requires saving money in the good times to make through the winters. Tax that money away, spend it instead of investing it, and you get what you pay for. There can be no good in bringing us all down to the least common denominator. If you have ever played a sport, you know that to get better you have to “play up”, but without that motivation, that carrot you get mediocrity. Hmm, seems like that is what we are seeing now. Many individuals and/or immigrant have succeeded in building this country because if they did not like what they had, they could get together with others and presumably do it better themselves. Tax laws that encourage wealth creation and “rich” people are the solution not the problem.
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Mar 17, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Although there are obviously many illnesses that must be treated in the hospital and are no fault of the individual, nowhere in the National debate over health care is there any mention of personal responsibility. The cheapest prescription for good health as any physician will tell you is eat right (I think everyone knows that beer and cigarettes and twinkies do not constitute a sound diet), get plenty of sleep and exercise 5 days a week for at least 30 min (preferably an hour). Why is this not part of the national debate, no healthcare system in the world can fix an over weight, out of shape, abused body, come on people this is not rocket science, or even onerous. Lets add this to the healthcare fix, and we will all feel better as a side benefit.
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Monday, March 16, 2009 at 8:30 PM
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Mar 16, 2009 at 8:30 PM
http://www.investorsinsight.com/
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Mar 16, 2009 at 8:29 PM
A simple question By alfredholzheu in Member Introductions
I am a small business owner (an upscale Supermarket) in the Santa Ynez Valley (the home of the that incredibly stupid movie “Sideways”) and have been reading John’s newsletter “for free, thankyou John” for the past year. Truth and reality are a nice change to the general stupidity of the official business press. But I have a question that no financial guru of any sort has been able to clear up for me. Why is the stock market considered an investment. Bets on the table at the local Chumash Indian Casino can yield an “investment” return, but is it an investment. When I spent $50K on a sushi bar in my business, I was banking on a return that depended on attracting new customers who would by a product for more than its cost to produce, ie. we added value to the fish and rice that we bought. In what way is that part of an investment in a stock that does not at least pay dividends, why is our country so focused on this illusory metric. For the most part, except for the IPO market or expansion fueled by equity, companies can not even benefit by the movement of the stock market. I just don’t get it, from a real perspective.
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